Re: [DotGNU]Re: X as WOS

[Adam Theo]

Mario D. Santana wrote:

> Adam,
>
>
> > hmm... I've been pondering having 
> > applications/services/databases/components be synced with each other by 
> > using some sort of Sync'ing language over Jabber. Anyone know of an XML 
> > Lnaguage for the sync'ing of databases or directories? this could be 
> > easily routed over Jabber between the various components of the system.
>
> What guarantees does jabberd give of a particular message's full and
> successful propagation through the p2p network, i.e. of it's arrival at
> all the nodes? This is basically a 2-phase commit, and though for some
> services it may not be worth the overhead, other services (e.g., auth)
> will probably need a strong guarantee of sane behavior in pathological
> cases like splits.


Yes, I agree. This is a feature Jabber does quite well, and in this 
respect Jabber is more like email than IM. A Jabber server keeps trying 
to send a message up to a certain amount of time, like email, until 
giving up. it would also be possible, with an advanced publish/subscribe 
system (which jabber is working on), for messages to be permanatly 
archived until it's announced that the destination is back online.


> This is a question I've been wrestling with for a while in regards to 
> macs. It's a pretty thorny set of issues, but I don't see any reference 
> to it at the jabber site?


hm... on the reliability issue, i recall reading it somewhere, but it 
was a couple of months ago. i'll have to look.

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